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PU BLISH ED SE M I-W E E K L Y
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
B O H E M IA N U G G E T
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909.
C a a a o llla la d J a n u a r y 9, 1 9 0 8 .
WILL SOON PRESENT
CANTATA “ KING SAUL”
MORE THAN HALF BILLION
Oregon is Sixth in the List of the Productive Lum
ber States of the Union and Utah is
the Lowest— Some Figures.
THE NESMITH
T he Leader editor accepted a*
kind invitation extended by Prof. I
(5. E Johnson of the Royal In ter
m ediate School, to wituess the first
stage dress rehearsal of the cast j
aud chorus, m ade up entirely o f '
the students of the school au d their
friends, iu the presentation of that
splendid ca n ta ta “ K ing S a u l.” I
T his dress rehearsal tvas held in j
the Armory T h eater W ednesday |
afternoon, by forty mem bers of the j
cast and chorus and less confusion I
th an usually experienced on su c h ' Au init' a,ive petition containing
occasions was manifested. T h e ; U *90H s,K"atures ff>r the creation
ca n tata has been rehearsed b u t a ' of N esm ,,h ««“ “ ‘V was filed at
short time, b u t the lines are alre ad y !Sa,em ** U M’ Veatch and c - E
com m itted by the cast and chorus, S,ewarl w,th the secretary of state,
the drills very well executed and i Sohc,tors fouud a Keneral favor'
the work is progressing adm irably ab,e ,endency ‘«w ard Nesm ith
under the very efficient direciionsf coun‘y a" over
K,ate A ” ulu
of Prof. Johnson, who has had a ber of places took up the work
great deal of experience in such w ithout solicitation.
T he petition asks for the crea-
musical productions. T h e very
Filing of Petitions— The
Committee Thankful
For Assistance
W ashington, Nov. 29.—W ash work on it was conducted under
in g ton, Louisiana, Mississippi, A r the supervision of a committee of
kansas, and W isconsin, in the or four, consisting of W. M. Steuart,
chief statistician for m anufacturers
der nam ed, constitute the llig Five
and J. It. W etchol, export chief of
in producing the country’s lumber division, representing the bureau
supply whose valuation for last of census, and R. S. Kellog, as
year runs far above the half billion sistant forester an d A. II. Pierson,
dollar m ark. T exas, Michigan, forest assistant, representing the
Oregon, M innesota and Pennsyl United Stales forest service.
vania cam e after the first five
states and others followed in de
best talent of the school has been ! tion of a
county from portions
MATLOCK FORFEITS
creasing am ounts down to 1’tah,
|J IO C i c n n RnN TIQ I assigned to the prom inent roles in I of I)ouKlas alld ,*ane counties.
the lowest on the list, with Nevada
H lb S1DUU U U N U b th e caHt and they w illb e nble‘to
Nesm ith county, turned down by
and North D akota having little
When Judge H arris heard argu interpret these difficult roles adm ir- ,lle ,e* ,8lature, w illbe created by
tim bered area, not rated at all.
ment
for a new trial iu the case of ably, especially with three weeks 1 ,lle ‘>° ‘,ttlar vote al,aos‘ u tlan i-
W hile the total valuation of
more of
ot continuous
continuous rehearsals, m o u s l y - Capital Jo u rn al, Dec. 2.
lum ber, lath and shingle product Joe M atlock, Jr., ju st after his
T he Leader predicts that “ K ing
conviction,
he
arranged
to
try
the
ion reached $541,545,640, this
THANKS EXTENDED TO
am ount represents a decrease of case W ednesday, December 1, and ! S au l” will win a place in the esti
FRIENDS OF NESMITH
tw enty-three per cent under the excused the case until that time, j n a tio n of the people of C ottage.
Meanwhile,
at
the
solicitation
of
I
Grove
and
vicinity
along
w
ith!
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previous y ear’s output. T he num
defendant’s
father
an
d
brother,
those
splendid
sim
ilar
successes,,
lio
n
.
R.
M.
V eatch aud C. E-
ber of mills reporting was .41,2.11
aud these m anufactured 33,224,- his release from jail on bonds was "B elsh azzar,” “ Queen E sth e r,” I Stew art have returned home from
369.000 board
feet of lumber, asked for and a bond for his a p and “ P inafore” which were pre- j Salem where they went T uesday
seined here under the directions of to file the Nesm ith county iuitia-
valued at $510,575,822 and 2,986,- pearance on W ednesday, Decern
684.000 lath valued at $6,791,328, ber 1 was fixed at $1590, which Prof. M. E . Robinson, a sp e cia list! tive petitions containing nearly
in this line of work. T he Royal 12,000 nam es of legal voters of
w hile the shingle m akers turned was given by J. I). M atlock and
school will present “ K ing S a u l” Oregon representing all sections of
out 12,106,483,000 shingles valued E. D. Matlock.
in this city W ednesday and T h u rs -! the state, being four huudred more
W
hen
court
was
convened
W
ed
at
$24,878,490. T he
average
day evenings, Dec. 22 au d 23. nam es than is required by law for
nesday
m
orning
all
the
jurors
not
value of lum ber at the point of
m anufacture was $15.37 a thou excused had appeared aud when Cottage, G rove people should not i the filing of such a petition. T he
sand feet, $2.27 a thousand for the court asked d efen d an t's coun fail to put “ K ing S au l” oil their ready response of the voters and
lath aud $2.00 a thousand for sel where defendant himself was, j list of holiday entertainm ents i friends of the new Nesmith coun-
which they cannot afford to miss, ty cause in securing these petitions
they were uuable to tell.
shingles.
I
T
he Leader will publish the cast is m ost gratifying to Messrs V eatch
T
he
court
then
and
there
d
e
-,
Yellow pine of the south which
of
characters aud synopsis of this 1 and Stew art and the other mem-
d
a
re
d
the
bond
of
$1500
forfeited
[
has been far in the lead in the
I bers of the Nesmith promotion
lum ber production for more than a and told the clerk to issue a bench cau tata in the near future.
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committee appointed by the Cot-
w
arrant
at
once,
to
have
the
d
e
-
!
decade, more than m aintained its
!
tage Grove Commercial Club, and
fendant
brought
into
court.
Fourth
Regiment
to
Remain
Intact.
suprem acy hist year, contributing
this com mittee takes thy» m eans to
M atlock is charged with attem pt
slightly more than thirty-three per
There has been m uch talk o f : heartily th an k those citizen voters
to
commit
rape.
cent of the total cut from all kinds.
disbanding th e Fourth Regiment i who so freely signed these petitions
D ouglas fir of the northwest
O. N. G., artillery service. T his and to the m any friends of the
The Schubert Lady Quartette.
ranked second aud white pine
was at a tim e when trouble w a s 1 Ngsraith county cause throughout
third. Practically all kinds showed
Those delightful vocalists, the brew ing with Japan and it was the state for their support and
a m arked decreased cut, and for
Schuliert Lady quartette of C hica thought the coast needed stronger I m any valued favors extended the
the first three k inds of timber
go, will appear at the arm ory hall | defences. Since then unofficial j committee. T h e cause is just aud
there was a falling of fifteen to
on Dec. 11. Lovers of sweet sing- 1 word has been circulated th a t it is| will win.
tw enty-two and tw enty per cent,
ing should, not miss this splendid j most likely th e regim ent will re-1
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respectively. O ak and hemlock
entertainm ent.
m ain just as it is and th at w ithin a
A N orth Yakim a white man ob-
m aintained their relative ran k s but
T he H igh school is bringing oil reasonable, tim e four more com- taiued $10,500 dam ages against an
showed decreases of twenty-five
this fine musical attraction for the panies will be added to m ake the Indian for obtaining possession of
per cent in am ount produced and
purpose of securing money to buy ; regim ent complete.
i his w ife’s affections. It seems in-
spruce dropped eighteen per cent.
a piano for the H igh school. H ear!
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credible th a t the affections of a
Louisiana was the heaviest pro
it. T ickets 25, 35 an d 50 cents;
j) r
Lowe the optician n ex t I woman who would tak e up with
ducer of yellow pine lum lier, sup
at the W ave. .
M onday.
an Indian are worth th at much.
plying nearly one-fifth of the total
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production. T exas,
Mississippi,
A rkansas, and A labam a followed
in the order nam ed. T he state of
W ashington, alone, supplied more
th an three-fifths of the Douglas
fir cut, while the bulk of the re
m ainder came from Oregon. Min
nesota produced about a third of
the white pine, followed by Wis
consin with about fifteen per cent
aud New H am pshire with ten per
cent. An interesting feature of
th e report is that two New E ngland
states, Maine and Massachusetts,
produced more white pine than
M ichigan, which for m any years
led the country in producing this
valuable tim ber.
O ak lum ber m anufacture now
centers in K entucky, W est Vir
ginia aud Tennessee. W isconsin
comes first iu the production of
hem lock, ta k in g the position held
by Pennsylvania for so many
years. A ltogether the lum ber re
port bulletin, w hich is free, by the
way, contains fifty seven pages,
and gives detailed figures upon the
q uality and value oj forty-five
kinds of lum ber m anufactured in
the United States last year. The
What Would
For a Suit
US A D A M S T I M E ?
VOL. XXI. NO. 34
COMMERCIAL CLUB
ELEC1S NEW OFFICERS
At M onday ev en in g ’s meeting of
the Commercial Club the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: C. C. H azleton, president;
First Vice, Marion V eatch: second
Vice, J. F . Spray: S ecretary, F.
H. Rosenberg; T reas. Geo. H all:
Trustees, F. I). W heeler, J. B.
Protzm au, G. A. Tyson, A. Brund,
Dr. J. O. Van W inkle and L. A.
Cates.
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H. O. Thom pson, the retiriug
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president, has filled the office with
credit to him self and to the entire P ort' a ,,d ’ 0 r **°*>- Nov. 30, 1909.
satisfaction of the club. H e has 1 Editor Leader:—
T h e Portland Live Stock E x
worked most faithfully au d d ili
change
offers for the lies! C hrist
gently for the success of the club
and the progress, development and m as cattle shipped »to the Portland
advancem ent of this com m unity ; U nion Stock Y ards the following
during his incum bency. T h e Com prem ium s:
Liberal Inducement Offer
ed to Stock Men by
Packing Plant
1st 2nd
Car steers, not less Ilian 211 head $150 $75
s o u 's m a n a g e m e n t h a s b e en in - j Car cows, not less than 20 head 1.50 75
s tr u m e n ta i in m a n y w o rth y a c h ie v - Hest single steer. ....................
25 15
rn e n ts fo r th e b e tte rm e n t o f th is ! Besl 9' nKle
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25 15
m ercial Club under Mr. Thomp-
com m unity during the past year,
C attle to be judged m orning of
achievem ents which will long con- : December 14th au d sold at auction
tinue to bear good fruit for the ; th at afternoon. Judges, John F.
town and com m unity. T h e in a u g 'O ’Shea, Portland, F ran k Brown,
uration of the N esm ith county C arlton, Oregon, G. W . Gammie,
proposition aud the carry in g to a P ortland. T his sort of encourage
successful outcom e the circulation ment should he au iucentiv^ for
aud filing, according to law, the re the breeder and feeder of cattle.
quired iuitative petitions iu this It is iu line with the educational
worthy m ovem ent. A nother com work undertaken by this com pany
m endable achievem ent d u rin g the and to which the press of the
past year was the organization of a uorthivest is lending valuable aid.
promotion departm ent in th e Com
Receipts at the Portland Union
m ercial Club aud the em ploym ent Stock Yards for tlie mouth ending
of an experienced m an to com pile today have been: Cattle 6518,
and circulate literature descriptive calves 583, sheep 7549, hogs 12744,
of this city aud South Lane county horses 274. These receipts are an
aud the m any opportunities afford evidence of the utility of a live
ed home seekers and investors, and stock m arket. T he approxim ate
this is a movement w hich has value of the 457 cars th a t m ade
already been productive of good u p the receipts was $567,500 a
returns although only recently in tidy sum that went into the pocket*
augurated and put into effect. Let of the farm ers and stockmen of
the good work continue. T he W ashington, Idaho and Oregon.
Leader believes the new club offi
T he cattle m arket has been con
cers com petent to continue most sistent throughout the m onth.
successfully the work now so well Good cattle have brought good
hand.
prices, especially in the instance of
cows. T op price for steers was
Cottage Grove Rooklets Destroyed. $4.75 per hundred, top price for
cows $3.75 an d Spayed heifers
About 1100 of the fine new Cot sold at $4. Light calves have
tage Grove Com mercial Club book been in strong dem and with tops
lets were ruined by w ater during at $5.25.
Sheep have come forward in
the late freshet. They were stored
in the brick vault in W oodard 8c j light q uantities and medium to
Beaulieu’s real estate office which 1 P °°r qu ality . Good wethers, w hat
was flooded to the depth of severalj ‘ew there were, sold at $4.75 for
inches. T h e books were stored in yearlings and $4.50 for two year
this place to save the expense of j olds. Lam bs sold at $5.75 for th e
insurance and the possibility of l*«st th at were offered,
destruction by fire, b ut dam age
H ogs have come forward rath er
from water was never dream ed of. freelv, au d while duriug the first
•i week in the m onth, prices sagged
a little, the m arket promptly re-
C leveland’s Baking I’owder.
covered aud has l>eeu strong and
high. Tops were $8.10 with bulk
of sales at $8. All of the prices
therein quoted have !>een on good
qualities for th is m arket. I’oor
q u ality stuff has sold low am) th e
divergence between good and poor
grades is constantly growing wider.
Yours very truly,
I). O. L iv e l y , G eneral Agent,
YO Have
POOR ADAM I Contented with a fig leaf and only one model.
YOU have the finest of fabrics, the best of tailoring, New York,
London and Paris models to choose from at
Wheeler-Thompson Co.’s
IN PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION
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$12.50 to 25.00
That is what such firms as ours have done to advance the clothing
Business. You should encourage such thrift and enterprise
EVERWEAR HOSIERY.
WHEELER-THOMPSON CO.
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LISI"
STOCK YARD
PREMIUMS
Done
Thinki the Local it Killing Time.
A prom inent m erchant returning
from Portland on train No. 17,
formerly know n as the Cottage
G rove local, th in k s th at train
is a “ tim e-killer.” lie savs it
leaves Portland at the same tim e
it formerly did, 4:15 and ru n s to
Oregon City on the same old
schedule; then it takes its time
com ing up the valley, arriv in g
here at 10:0.’., instead of 9:20, i s
formerly, tak in g almost six hours
to come from the metro|)olis, a dis
tance of 12.1 mile*. He says he
was almost worn cu t with the trip
after spending a wearisome day in
the city .— Register.
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